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JUNE 16, 2020

Los Angeles-based UNest , which develops a mobile app to help parents with financial planning as well as college savings, has raised $9M in a funding round, the company said Tuesday. The funding came from Anthos Capital, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Artemis Fund, Draper Dragon and Unlock Ventures.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2020

Los Angeles-based Upfront Ventures has just kicked off an effort to raise a new, $280M venture capital fund, Upfront VII, L.P. According to the filing, there have not been any commitments to the fund yet. Upfront--as is expected--has not announced any details on the new fund yet. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2020

in funding for its industrial robotics company. The funding was led by Threshold Ventures, and also included Fika Ventures, Fathom Capital, and Toyota AI Ventures. Los Angeles-based Elementary Robotics , a new startup led by startup veteran Arye Barnehama, said on Tuesday that it has raised $12.7M

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2020

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) says that it is launching a brand new nonprofit Venture Forward , which it says will help advance initiatives around diversity, education, research, and history within the venture capital industry, to help promote a strong and inclusive community. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2020

in a funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The seed funding was led by Cove Fund II, and also included Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health and Device of Tomorrow Capital, as well as un-named angels. San Diego-based Carlsmed , a developer of medical devices to improve complex spin surgery, has raised $2.5M

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

The company recently raised $53M more in funding, from Sofinnova Investments, New Enterprise Associates, Lundbeckfonden Ventures, Arix Bioscience, Pappas Capital, RiverVest Venture Partners, 35 Partners, BioMed Ventures, Pfizer Inc. and Adage Capital Management READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2020

Los Angeles-based Pipe Technologies , which is developing a subscription financing platform to help software companies finance their businesses without debt or dilution, has raised $60M in a funding round, the company said on Wednesday. The company said the new funding will go towards growth and expansion of its operations into new markets.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2020

“We’ve created the HBCUvc Donor Circle as an opportunity for supporters and individuals to engage in our work and join a long-term strategy toward racial equity in venture capital and technology,” she wrote in the post. It held a city-based internship program with Los Angeles, which connects students to venture capital firms in the area.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2020

Rogue recently raised a round of funding from Runa Capital, Mighty Capital, Grishin Robotics, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Ronnie Lott. Rogue said that Tretton will advise its board of directors, which includes Matt Casamassina, Chris Carvalho, Dmitry Grishin, and Andre Bliznyuk. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2020

San Diego-based Artiva Biotherapeutics has raised $78M in a Series A funding round, for its cancer therapies, the company said late Thursday. Tom Farrell is President and CEO of Artiva. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

UNest , a Los Angeles provider of financial planning and savings tools for parents including college savings plans and other beneficial investment vehicles for various life events, has raised $9 million in a new round of funding, the company said. .

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2020

In a move to help make Black professionals easier to connect, Los Angeles-based Valence said on Thursday that it has launched a new, social networking service, with backing from investments from Upfront Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Accel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2020

Unfortunately, some are so focused on this principle that they forget that every business, even nonprofits, have to practice the basic principles of capitalism (build a business model to make money) to cover their costs to do good things another day. You can find dozens more on the Conscious Capitalism web site. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2020

San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals developer Poseida Therapeutics has raised $110M more in funding, in its Series D round, the company announced this morning.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2020

The new partnership is one of the latest efforts by the CAA to move into the venture investments business--it also is behind CAA Ventures, its own venture investment firm, and a few years ago created Creative Labs, its own "startup studio"; more than a decade ago, CAA also started its own venture capital fund along with Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 22, 2020

While the accelerator program backed by the BMW-owned Mini Cooper automaker and the venture capital firm Urban Us is based in Brooklyn, it’s conducting its latest program virtually, with participating startups coming from Atlanta, Sydney, San Francisco, Boston, Burlington, and Los Angeles, according to a statement.

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JUNE 26, 2020

The company most recently announced a funding round back in 2017 , when it took $5.5M from Palisades Growth Capital and Act One Ventures. The company says it uses artificial intelligence to help drive its mobile tool. QLess is led by CEO Kevin Grauman; the company has been around since 2007. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Both have worked.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2020

Individual restaurants are listed, and also have their own landing pages, so they can ask for funding from their patrons. When the pandemic happened, we had just raised a funding round, and our investors have helped us make sure we could raise that money. We were already profitable, growing 120 percent year-over-year.

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JUNE 8, 2020

in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures, and also which also included Experian Ventures, Cherry Tree Investments, Dig Ventures, Mucker Capital, Unlock Venture Partners, TechStars and Wavemaker Partners. Moving forward, this recent funding is going towards creating more personalization around that text experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2020

You as a second career entrepreneur are more likely to bootstrap, meaning able to pay strict attention to sustainable cash flow and utilizing your own capital at the outset, thus avoiding the pressures of finding and managing external funding. Don’t hesitate to capitalize on your growing advantages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2020

Too many entrepreneurs tell me they are looking for an investor, and can’t differentiate between venture capital (VC) investors versus accredited angel investors. The amounts from angels start as low as $25K, while minimum venture capital amounts usually start in the $2M range. In fact, the reality is quite the opposite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2020

The military has long recognized that machine guns are force multipliers for rifles, but businesses have been slow to capitalize on this concept. Crowdsourcing for funding and ideas. Sometimes all the planning in the world isn’t enough for business survival, when things change as fast as they do today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2020

A good way to start is to create and communicate bite-sized milestones toward your end objective, including product development stages, customer threshold targets, and funding achievements. Make sure that all of your business efforts create and capitalize on positive people relationships, personal growth, and matching people needs to results.

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JUNE 25, 2020

in a seed funding round, the company said this week. The funding was led by LVP, and also included Transcend Fund and Kristian Segestrale, the CEO of Super Evil Megacorp. Los Angeles-based Treehouse Games , a developer of cooperative games aimed at helping friends spend time together, has raised $2.6M

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Xconomy

JUNE 17, 2020

Lassen was started last year within Frazier Healthcare Partners; Mark Barrett, an entrepreneur in residence at the venture capital firm since 2017, is its CEO. Lassen—a name inspired by a 10,000-foot peak in Northern California, the southernmost major volcano in. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 18, 2020

Engrail Therapeutics, which emerged from stealth Thursday with $32 million in outside financing, landed its entire Series A funding from a sole source: Nan Fung Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Hong Kong property developer Nan Fung Group.

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